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A 7
page paper which examines the novel “The Bean Trees” by Barbara Kingsolver from a
new historicism perspective. Bibliography lists 5 additional sources.
Page Count:
7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAbeantr.rtf
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finding a home. It is a story written less than two decades ago, yet still presents us with images of the present, as well as images of the past. It
is a intriguing tale of women, love, and being an outsider. It is also a story that takes us to a particular time period that was not so long ago.
In Kingsolvers novel we are examining the 1980s through the eyes of one woman trying to escape to a new life, a life that offers more than the one she
left behind. It is a story that has elements which are timeless, but also a story that offers us products and realities that are clearly part of that time period.
In the following paper we present a brief examination of the story itself, and then offer up a new historicism perspective of the Kingsolvers novel "The Bean Trees."
The Bean Trees As mentioned, this story is the tale of a woman searching. "Marietta Greer spent her childhood in rural Kentucky determined to do two things: avoid getting pregnant
and escape rural Kentucky. At the start of the novel, she has headed west in a beat-up 55 Volkswagen, changing her name to Taylor when her car runs out of
gas in Taylorville, Illinois" (Anonymous The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver bean_trees.asp). A small abandoned Cherokee child essentially drops into her lap and becomes part of her life. She names
the child Turtle because she hangs on like a snapping turtle and the two head out, arriving in Tucson where "Taylor finds friendship and support in Lou Ann Ruiz, a
fellow Kentuckian and single mother, with whom she and Turtle share a house. Her newfound community also includes Mattie, who runs a safe house for political refugees in the upstairs
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